Wednesday, September 19, 2012

I saw two good articles today that show the work that is being done in the study of building warp drive for real. Some real exciting stuff.

A warp drive
would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage
of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light.
A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican
physicist Miguel Alcubierre; however, subsequent calculations found that
such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.